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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An evocative,
clear-eyed, and revealing memoir by Bernie
Taupin, the lyrical master and long-time
collaborator of Elton John8220Iloved writing,
I loved chronicling life and every moment I was
cogent, sober, or blitzed, I was forever feeding
off my surroundings, making copious notes as
ammunition for future compositions. . . . The
thing is good, bad, or indifferent I never
stopped writing, it was as addictive as any
drug.8221This is the memoir music fans have
been waiting for. Half of one of the greatest
creative partnerships in popular music, Bernie
Taupin is the man who wrote the lyrics for Elton
John, who conceived the ideas that spawned
countless hits, and sold millions and millions of
records. Together, they were a duo, a unit, an
immovable object. Their extraordinary,
half-century-and-counting creative relationship
has been chronicled in biopics (like
2019'snbspRocetman) and even John's own
autobiography,nbspMe But Taupin, a famously
private person, has kept his own account of their
adventures close to his chest, until now.
Written with honesty and candor, Scattershot
allows the reader to witness nbspevets unfolding
from Taupin's singular perspective, sometimes
front and center, sometimes from the edge, yet
always described vibrantly, with an infectious
energy that only a vivid songwriter's prose
could offer. From his childhood in the East
Midlands of England whose imagination was
sparked and forever informed by the distinctly
American mythopoetics of country music and
cowboy culture, to the glittering, star-studded
fishbowl of 821770and 821780Beverly Hills,
Scattershot is simultaneously a Tom
Jones173like picaresque journey across a
landscape of unforgettable characters, as well as
a striking, first-hand account of a creative era
like no other and one man8217sexperience at the
core of it. An exciting, multi-decade whirlwind
told in a non-linear yet grounded narrative,
Scattershot whizzes around the world as we ride
shotgun with Bernie on his extraordinary
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life. We visit Los Angeles with him and Elton on
the cusp of global fame. We spend time with him
in Australia almost in residency at an infamous
rock 'n' roll hotel in an endless blizzard of
drugs. And we spend late, late night hours with
John Lennon, with Bob Marley, and hanging with
Frank Sinatra. And beyond the world of popular
music, we witness memorable encounters with
writers like Graham Greene, painters like Andy
Warhol and Salvador Dali, and scores of notable
misfits, miscreants, eccentrics, and geniuses,
known and unknown. Even if they're not famous in
their own right, they are stars on the page, and
we discover how they inspired the indelible
lyrics to songs such as 8220Tiy
Dancer,82218220Cadle in the
Wind,82218220Benie and The Jets,8221and so
many more. Unique and utterly compelling,nbspSca
tershotnbspwil transport the reader across the
decades and around the globe, along the way
meeting some of the greatest creative minds of
the 20th century, and into the vivid imaginings
of one of music's most legendary lyricists.
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